Scale-pendulum.



J. W. CULMBR.

SCALE PENDULUM.

APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 5, 1907.

91 0,646. Patented Jan. 26, 1909.

WITN 555s automatically counter JOHN W. GULMER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

BOALE-PENDULUM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

ass Ian. 20, 1909.

Application filed August 6, 1907. Serial No. 887,289..

To all whom it'ma/y concern:

Be it known that I, JQHN W. Comma, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Scale-Pendulum, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in scale pendulum in which the weight of a load upon the load bearin 'member of a scale is alanced by the ratiorr of a lo'aded arm pivotally connects wit said load bearing member; and the objects of my invention are, first, to provide a pendulum which shall be moved through equal increments of are for equal increments of weight upon the load bearing member; second, to afford facilities for the close adjustment of the! pendulum at all points of its arc of ration; and, means for t e adjustment of the twoparts of the endulum relativel to each other.

In, t e accompanying rawin Fi re 1 is a front view, in projection, o a scae embodying the invention; Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of the pendulum, an Fig. 3 is an end view of Fig. 2.

Like figures refer to similar parts throughout all the views.

Upon a base 1 and at or near one end of said base a vertical support 2 has its upper portion fitted with seats for the rece tion of the pivots 20,. only one of which is s own in Fig. 1; but a similar pivot to 20 and also to 19 are drawn into the beam 3 opposite to thoseshown. The beam 3 rests upon the seats of the column 2, and a crotch 4 having a vertical stem 19 rests upon the pivots 19 in the beam 3 which is extended to a length determined by the leverage desired and fitted with a point pivot 18. At the opposite end of the base 1, a frame 6 is mounted thereon, and, made fast to said frame and projecting horizontally beyond the vertical center thereof bars 7 are fitted with seats for the pivot 10 of a pendulum; within the upper ortion of the frame 6 and concentric with the knife edge of the ivot 10 a chart 22 is made fast and is rules and marked in concentric scales of weights and values as is common to such scales, exceptthat in this instance the divisions are of equal arcs for equal increments of weight or value.

Seated u on the bars '7 is a pendulum com.-

55 posed of a' lock or head 8 having a pivot 10 to the pivot 11; a pointer or indicator 21 is third, to afiord the crotch 4 and a stem 19 extends resting upon seats in said arms 7, and having a projection through which the pivot 16 1s driven for connection with the beam 3; a bar 9 passes through a vertical slot in the block 8 as shown in dotted lines in Fi 3, and at its upper end is threaded for t e nut 25 by means of which the bar 9 may be raised or lowered relatively to the ivot 10; at its lower end the bar 9 has a b ock or weight 9 through which a pivot 11 is driven and the bifurcated-bar 12 hangs upon said pivot 11, a block 14 is slotted centrally to receive the bar 12 and the lower end of said bar is threaded and provided with the nut 15 b means of which said block 14 may be move relatively attached to the pivot block 8 its reading edge in radial alinement with the edge of the pivot 10, and is moved \across the chart 22 and closely parallel thereto by the movement of the pendulum. A plate 5 is mounted upon down wardly within the base 1, and is connected there with a boss vertically below the fulcrum bearing pivots 20, by beams of a link 19", as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1.

In the ordinary form of pendulum where the block or weight, corresponding to 9" in the drawin is of the requisite weight to counter alance the full load as indicated on the chart 22, it is reqluisite that each increment on the chart s are then the preceding one, because with each increment of load upon the weight re ceiver the pendulum moves a ortion of its Wei ht into vertica 0 position to the load, 311%, consequently oes not move through so great an arc; in my invention the weight is divided and one half or more is suspended pivotally from the other and rigid portion, and, by this device the vertical line of the weight is the vertical line of the pivot 11 and the pendulum is moved through equal arcs for equal increments of loa The beam pivot 18 is coupled to the pendulum pivot 16 by the link 17. When the scale is assembled and load laced upon the load receiver 5, if the pendu um is too weak and permits the ointer 21 to pass the proper indication on t e chart 22 the. weight 9 is lowered by means of the nut 25, and, if too strong and the indicator falls short of the proper pgint on the chart the weight is raised by the same means until the proper ould be of a smaller reater proadjustment is obtained; in like manner the weight 14 may be raised or depressed, by means of the nut 15, and the accurate indication of the wei ht upon the receiver be obtained u on tile chart 22 by the ad-- justrnent of the two weights relatively to the pivots from which they depend.

I claim as my invention;

1. In a scale, a weight bearing member, a frame supportin said member, a case mounted upon the rame, an e ually spaced chart in the case, a pivotaly supported block in the case, a vertically ad ustable weight passing within a slot in sair block, a second weight pivotally supported from said first named weight, a pointer upon the block and a link connecting said block with the weight receiver as shown and described.

2. In a scale, a base, a beam supported on the base, a case mounted on the base, a chart in the case, a pivotally supported block in the case, a pointer upon the block parallel with the chart, a weight passing through a normally vertical slot in the block, :1 screw upon said weight, a nut threaded upon said. screw above the block, a second weight pivotally suspended from said first named weight, a screw for the vertical adjustment of said second weight relatively toits supporting ivot, and a link connecting the block with t 1e beam, as shown and described.

3. A pendulum" for weighing machines, com rising a pivotally sulpported block, a weig t rotate by the book and adjustable vertically in relation thereto, a second weight pivotally suspended from the first weight and adjustable verticall in relation thereto, a pointer upon the bloc and a link connecting said block with the weight carrier of a weighing machine, as shown and described.

4. In a weighing machine, a base, a beam pivotally supported on the base, a weight receiver pivotally supported on the beam, :1 case mounted upon the base, a chart fitted upon the case, a pendulum comprising a plvotallv sup orted block, a weightgidjustable re ative y to the block and moved thereby and a second weight pivotally suspended from the first named weight within the case, an indicator u on the block, and a link connectin said b ock with the beam, as shown and ascribed.

5. A divided weight pendulum comprisinga pivotally supported block, a weight moving positively with and adjustable vertically in relation to said block, a bifurcated bar pivotally suspended from said weight, a second Wei ht vertically adjustable u on said bar, an a link connecting said b ock with the weight bearer of a weighing machine, as shown and described.

Signed at Corinth, Miss. this th day of July 1907.

JOHN W. CULMER.

Witnesses:

J. C. SWAIM, Jr., Jno. G. PANKEY. 

